Meet the Team

We are a team of dedicated professionals, ready to do what ever it takes to improve your project, mitigate risk and enhance financial return

Julian Richardson

Founder

Julian Richardson started his career in the re/insurance sector in 1992. He was a producing broker at Marsh focusing on oil and gas business in the Middle East and Africa. He helped lead the development of products and business opportunities within the carbon market for the wider MMC group of companies which included Marsh, Mercer & Putnam. In 2004 he joined GE Insurance Solutions and was a senior underwriting risk manager responsible for the energy and marine portfolio of the Global Markets business. He was a member of the Global Market executive committee and was the FSA approved person for the London legal entity. In 2006 Julian founded Parhelion.

Julian has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management where his dissertation was on Carbon Trading Risk. He is a Research Associate at Texas A&M University, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group. See: http://gerg.tamu.edu/people/science-team/index.html

He has spoken at numerous international conferences on risk management and climate change insurance.

Dr Anthony Knap

Director

Dr. Knap is currently the James R. Whatley Endowed Chair in Geosciences, Professor of Oceanography and Director, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group at Texas A&M University. His expertise is in the intersection between business and science and especially the affect on regional and global climate on meteorological events and how these changes affect business. Eighteen years ago Knap founded the Risk Prediction Initiative, a partnership between the science community and the Insurance industry providing essential information on natural disasters (tropical cyclones, floods, tornadoes, hail, fire and geo-hazards), and their effect on the business of risk. Dr. Knap is on the Board of Board of Shoreline Mutual (Bermuda) Ltd. and Arvak Ltd. which are financial pollution guarantee companies for ship owners worldwide. Until its sale to Validus Re, he was on the Board of Flagstone Reinsurance, a NYSE listed property catastrophe re-insurer. He was on the Board of the Offshore Energy Institute in the US. Dr. Knap was President, Director and Senior Research Scientist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) for 25 years. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the environment and climate and is a current member of the Steering Committee of the Global Ocean Observing system of the UN.

Toby Stubbs

Underwriter

Toby has had a career of 35 years in the Lloyd’s insurance market, working as an underwriter. He started his career with Amlin, followed by Wellington Insurance from where he was one of the original team that founded Aspen Insurance. He was also the first employee of the Acappella syndicate which he helped to develop into a £100m premium turnover entity within four years of establishment. He has been involved from time to time with alternative energy projects since the 1980’s. He was chairman of the Lloyd’s property reinsurance business panel and has spoken at the Canadian Insurance congress on several occasions. He is currently a name at Lloyd’s. He was master of the Grocer’s Company in 2011/12 and is a governor of two leading independent schools.

Kate Brown

Assistant Underwriter

Kate has 15 years’ experience as a Company Secretary, training with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and working for blue chip companies such as Kingfisher and RELX (formerly Reed Elsevier). She has significant experience in driving complex projects and processes and in advising diverse groups of stakeholders, as well as in-depth experience of the preparation and review of technical documentation. Kate has recently joined the team and is using her skills and experience to support execution of Parhelion’s geothermal risk finance solution.

David Foreman

Advisor

David is Chairman and a founding member of Ark Syndicate Management Ltd, a Lloyds of London Managing Agency.
David came to Lloyds of London in 1973 and over a career of 43 years at Lloyds has Underwritten for 4 Lloyds Syndicates never having lost money for his backers. In 2007 David, along with two colleagues, established Ark and after two years as the Active Underwriter, David assumed the role of Director of Underwriting, becoming Executive Chair in 2014. In 2016 David became Non Executive but remained Chairman of Ark.
During his underwriting career David specialised in Direct and Reinsurance Property underwriting as well as holding the role of Named Underwriter for one of Lloyds’ major syndicates which underwrote across most classes of business generating in excess of $1000m of Annual Gross Written Premium.
David has held the positions of Chairman of the Lloyds Non Marine Association, Chairman of the Lloyds Market Association Non Marine Panel and was in attendance at the Lloyds Council for two years.

Mike Newman

Director, USA

Mike Newman started his career as a Broker at Lloyd’s and continued in the U.S.A. where he held senior broker positions at Sedgwick James and Minet.

As the CEO and Founder of International Energy Insurance Brokers, Inc. and St. Andrews Risk Services, LLC., Mike grew two successful professional services firms with offices in California, Texas and London. The firms specialized in the energy industry with clients engaged in every aspect of the oil supply chain with global operating exposures that required insurance programs in the international underwriting markets. Integro Insurance Brokers acquired the two firms in 2015 and Mike continues as a Principal of the firm.

Mike has a Law degree from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the University of Southern California (USC). He has published several articles on Energy and Environmental risks and spoken on related topics at many industry conferences. He holds Surplus Lines insurance licenses in several U.S. states.

Rob Billings

Rob Billings is an experienced finance director who has worked in the retail sector for the last ten years at Mothercare, Staples and Costa Coffee. He has recently worked with restructuring firms to right size UK operations and with third parties to package commercial property disposals. He has managed acquisition and integrations in the UK and Europe. Previously he has worked in high tech / start up, FMCG and marketing services companies. He trained with PWC in London as a Chartered Accountant in their Industrial and Consumer practice.